As some of you have noticed I've been
conspicuously absent from the channel for a while now
Since Pax East for videos on our channel that aren't the WAN show
or don't involve everyone in the company
Linus has hosted 22 of them, and I have hosted a grand total of two
Am I getting fired? Am I getting phased out in favor of clickbait?
Topics and crazy thumbnails?
I've been reading your comments and I do
Appreciate your concern and kind words
But NO!!! Nothing dramatic
I have been voluntarily reaccomodated to Project Floatplane
And I want you to join me
So what the heck is floatplane?
Well I'll answer that question
But first a seemingly unrelated broader statement
The trend today's for social platforms to grow user count
at all costs. This is how they attract online creators and build loyalty to their platform..
It makes sense. The problem with this model for creators
is that this loyalty is pretty much a gun to the head that says "Abandon us?"
And you'll lose everything
That you worked for as a creator losing your platform is like losing your job in a field where people are often
Self-employed covering their own costs for things like medical insurance
That's a scary prospect. The problem for the audience
Is that social platforms usually have their own agenda
with respect to Big Data
which is a deeper conversation for another time
These things motivate them to make changes to their algorithm
that can benefit the service
But harm the viewer creator relationship like delivering
trending videos to an activity feed rather than the content that was actively
Followed or subscribed to or in another more topical example
They might just up and turn off monetization because
they're advertising partners aren't fans of a particular style of content
Fair or not this pulls the rug out from under creators feet
So in the short term our goal with floatplane is very simple
We're going to take over the Galaxy or
failing that we'll build a platform for online content creators
to deliver their content directly to their audiences without the restrictions imposed by
traditional services. In a long term however floatplane media's more general mission is to develop
Really cool tools to reduce online traders dependent on a single social platform
And give them more time and resources to create
while enriching the experience for their loyal communities with stable elegant apps
It's win-win, so even if it doesn't sore it probably won't sink
Because it's a floatplane
For the past few months we've had a
pre-alpha
riding on the back of our forum with early access,
streaming, downloading mostly working and the CMS and transcoding systems hobbling along
but that's not the kind of future proof solution that we ultimately want and
That's where you come in. The true version of our
metaphorical floatplane needs a lot more work
before we can start showing it off to the pilots
We need another software engineer or computer scientist to join the team
and help us make magic.
This will involve brainstorming creative and innovative ways to
tackle the myriad of issues that come with developing this type of platform
Communicating with our team of two Canadians on each end of the country
some guy in the UK, another dude in Sweden and
possibly even someone hanging out in Belgium
Extensive documentation and commenting practices
to make it possible for others to work on the code that you write in the future and
coordinating with our team members to make sure that what we're building
will actually function at the end of the day and more
In terms of the requirements we have for your abilities. You need to have strong NodeJS
Javascript and Websocket skills
Along with professional software development experience
the more the better
We don't require a degree or piece of paper that says that you know how to code
But you must roughly have the equivalent coding knowledge of a post-secondary graduate
How you got it is your business
For bonus point, it would be great to have
experience working in agile Development teams
experience working on Complex Multi Layer applications and Microservices
experience with Web Transcoding
and a passion for interactive media
Modern Web content creations and building communities
We're mainly recruiting for a developer that can do server client relations handling in node
But as a software engineer at flow clean media you will be modifying
and hacking additional functionality into pre-existing
Systems and creating some new ones from scratch
Some of the many things you may be working on include the video distribution
systems both for downloading and streaming the comments and chat systems
the comments and chat systems
tools for creators to manage and improve their pages and interact with their audiences
Elegant, highly available web services to support our
front-end platform front-end web engineering that is functional
beautiful and has a premium feel
Applications for one of the many non web platforms that we do plan to support in the future
including iOS, Android, consoles and more
Agile tools for internal or external use that let us support our
customers and partners for a better overall experience for everyone and
Lots more features that we haven't thought of yet
so after all that if you're interested
There's a Google form link under the video that I'd like everyone to fill out before going any further
After we spend some time collecting those successfully completed forms there will be further
instructions that will include where to send a resume cover letter and
Portfolio along with the details of a timed coding challenge that
we will be holding which I think will be a fun way to help
You stand out from the crowd
if you want to be on the ground floor of making something awesome that people will actually use
And enjoy I would encourage you to join me and together, we can rule the Galaxy
as father and son
or
possibly daughter